Best Bosnian Restaurant

Grbic

Can one live on cevapi alone? This thought crosses one's mind while biting into Grbic's juicy ground-beef sausages. Sure, we all know there are a number of deserving establishments in the area — St. Louisans have the good fortune of experiencing the oft-unnoticed Eastern European cuisine because of the robust diaspora community. However, these little nuggets of Balkan goodness are just a small sample of why this Dutchtown restaurant is the gold standard of the area's Bosnian cuisine. Walk through the warm brick-arched patio entrance, and you are whisked from the industrial-looking corner of Keokuk Street and transported to the other side of the Adriatic Sea. Here, the tarhana soup and baked valdostana make diners feel as if they have stumbled into the kitchen of a long-lost Bosnian grandmother. As if these weren't reasons alone to fall in love with the place, the sarma, ground beef and rice stuffed cabbage rolls, are the cupid's arrow that will seal the deal.